Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom

by Russell R. Elliott

Book Overview

Twenty years after the decline of the magnificent Comstock Lode, Nevada's prosperity and population had diminished to such a degree that some popular articles questioned whether to deprive Nevada of her statehood. Then in the spring of 1900, a miner discovered silver in south-central Nevada. This casual find precipitated a spectacular latter-day mining boom that, among other things, helped to restore prosperity.With its wealth of little-known historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874171334
• ISBN13: 9780874171334
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"